concepts
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Magic Leap Ripped Off Those Awesome UI Concepts
Magic Leap is secretly building a headset that could blend computer graphics with the real world. Recently, we lucked into a treasure trove of illustrations from Magic Leap about what that future might hold. There’s just one problem: Magic Leap didn’t actually create all those awesome UI concepts. It copied them.
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Dust Off That Day Planner For These Compact Solar Charging Panels
The Blackberry struck the first blow, but eventually those multi-page day planners were all but completely replaced by modern smartphones. However, they might have finally found a way to claw their way back into relevancy with these replacement day planner pages that are actually functional solar panels, letting you charge your smartphone when left out…
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Modular PuzzlePhone Concept Would Last Up To A Decade
Smartphones will never be forever phones. But they might last a bit longer than just a few years if we could just replace the parts constantly break or fail. That’s the thinking behind the PuzzlePhone, whose designers say it could last up to 10 years.
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Self-Contained Motorised Wheels Could Give Us Autopilot Shopping Carts
Here’s an innovation you probably never realised you wanted until just now. Japan’s Denso corporation has created a compact, self-contained wheel that includes a motor, a battery and wireless communications allowing it to be driven and controlled remotely. The company could use it for a personal mobility device, but instead it plans to treat the…